Question

in the south, former slaves had to resort to sharecropping. what did the white land owners give the former slaves for working their land?

Answer 1

They often got some of the crops and were sometimes given a place on the property in order for them to work the land

Answer 2

Answer: By the early 1870s, the system known as sharecropping had come to dominate agriculture across the South. Under this system, families would rent small plots of land, or shares, to work themselves; in return, they would give a portion of their crop to the landowner at the end of the harvest season.

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